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District Governor Message

Rtn. Rajasekhar Srinivasan

District Governor
2021-2022

My Dear Rotarians, to the absence of any meaningful contact with fellow
Warm Rotary Greetings ! students or teachers because of online classes. It is
It has been a terrific three months for our District so very commendable that some clubs have established
far in this Rotary year. In spite of the COVID Pandemic Counselling Centers to address such issues.
going on, there has been a very good attendance at Let me also urge you all to do more projects towards
all the Official Visits that I have had so far. “Girl Child Empowerment’ and Girl Child Education”.
District Directors - P Kumaresan, Pratap Varkey, To quote the words of the famous American
Educationalist Brigham Young, “You educate a man;
Major General Vivekanandan and Varghese K Joy you educate a man. You educate a woman; you
are really doing a commendable job in coordinating educate a generation.”
with the clubs for their projects and GOV’s in their
respective zones. Before I conclude let me request you all to always
follow the COVID safety protocols whenever you
During the month of September, the “District Public attend club meetings or participate in any Club
Image Seminar” was conducted in a Hybrid mode. projects.
The attendance was very good with excellent
arrangements being made by the host club – Rotary Friends, Let us together “Serve to Change Lives” and
Club of Cochin Smart City. make “Our Lovely Planet” even lovelier.
One of the things which particularly struck me during Sincerely,
the visits was the high quality of Projects being done Yours in Rotary,
by the clubs of our District. As you may be aware our Rtn. Rajasekhar Srinivasan
district has a high number of Global Grant Projects.
There are a number of high value projects that have District Governor 2021-22
been funded directly by Rotarians. For instance, R I District 3201
Rotary Coimbatore Metropolis is in the process of
building a Multi Discipline Indoor Sports Complex for
the Differently abled at a cost of nearly Two Crores.
Almost all clubs have done a number of Projects where
in Mobile phones or Lap tops have been donated to
school and college students from the disadvantaged
sections of the society. Such students have been
facing hardships in attending online classes which
have become the normal because of the Pandemic.
There have also been widespread Newspaper reports
of mental depression and anxiety among students due

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